___________________________________'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man falsely charged with the rape of a white girl.
Review
Lee explores with exuberant humourthe irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. ? The Week
Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable. ? Truman Capote Published On: 2003-10-22
There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written ? Sunday Times Published On: 2003-10-22
No one ever forgets this book ? Independent
One of the best novels I remember ... uniquely unsentimental ? Guardian
About the Author
Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntington College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died on 19 February 2016.